Railways

Indian Railways Cannot Deal With Major Disasters

A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General criticized the medical system in the Indian Railways and said that it is ill-equipped to carry out medical relief //services in the event of any disaster or accident. The report was complied after auditing important installations of the railways...

Indian Railways Reverts To Serving Chicken on Menu

After the cooling down of the bird flu scare, the Indian Railways has decided to revert back to the staple diet of the non-veggies and has decided to bring back the chicken on its menu. // "Indian Railways have withdrawn the order prohibiting the serving of chickens and eggs in any form from rai...

Telemedicine Project Implemented for Indian Railways

South Eastern Central Railway at Bilaspur, M. P. in its specialty hospital has a Telemedicine project implemented.// The project was undertaken by a Bangalore based company called Televital. Now the Bilaspur Hospital is connected with two remote Railway Hospital at Raipur and Nagpur. The Telemedici...

New Lifeline Express Train Inaugurated

... The Indian railways handed over the new five state-of-the-art coach Li... today. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for railways Shri Lalu Prasad said that since 1991, Impact India Foundation with the cooperation of Indian railways have provided medical services free of cost to nea...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

...rom across the country. We can get blood donated today to the needy in any part of India in less than 30 minutes," Poacha told IANS. An Indian railways computer supervisor, Pocha says any healthy person interested in donating blood can register on the site and provide details like name, age, blood gro...

Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

...utical and chemical companies, the hospitals run by state governments , the railways and the armed forces have been asked to purchase drugs from them to make th...investment of over Rs. 10 billion and asked the hospitals under government, railways and army to purchase drugs from them," said G.S. Sandhu, joint secretary at...

Rail Travel Concession to Disabled Persons

...s are already subsidized and no concessions have been granted in these trains. This information was given by Shri R.Velu, Minister of State for railways in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. Source-PIB...

Measures to Prevent HIV in Railway Employees

...ound infected with HIV infection, highest number is amongst Group D employees. This information was given by Shri R.Velu, Minister of State for railways in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha toda. Source-PIB SRM ...

Government Questioned On Providing Unhygienic Food In Train

...the court's notice. He submitted that Indian railways was committed to providing quality food to its pas...ase kitchens and other cooking units of the Indian railways were highly deplorable and unhygienic, the petition had alleged. The railways had failed to set up modern and sanitised kitchens...

Cricket Match Lands Mother and Child in ICU after Lathi Charge

...the incident and hoped that the mother-daughter duo would recover soon. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was at the stadium with railways Minister Lalu Prasad when the cane-charge took place, seemed to defend the police action but added that an inquiry was on. No official from the s...

Railways in Biological News

More than just the tailpipe

...s and jumbo jets. From cataloguing the varied environmental costs the researchers come to some surprising conclusions. A comparison between light railways in both Boston and San Franciso show that despite Boston boasting a light railway with low operational energy use, their LRT is a far larger greenhous...

Slicing chromosomes leads to new insights into cell division

...are long, thin tubes that form a central component of the cytoskeleton and the mitotic spindle. They serve as intracellular structural supports and as railways along which molecular motors move cargoes such as chromosomes. Hunt's group hypothesized that polar ejection forces should be proportional to the c...

UNH becomes first university in nation to use landfill gas as primary energy source

...on EcoLine is completed, the pipeline will not be visible, running four feet underground along Rochester roads, the Spaulding Turnpike, and the Pan Am railways right-of-way onto UNH property. At UNH, landfill gas will replace commercial natural gas in UNHs cogeneration (co-gen) plant, the primary source of he...

Marathon of nano-sprinters

...ments, and the movement of the beads is observed under the microscope. One important result of these experiments is that molecular motors, unlike railways or cars, have a strong tendency to fall off their track and diffuse away into the surrounding aqueous solution. This is a direct consequence of their ...

Railways in Biological Technology

Penn researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

... percent. As the osmotic pressure builds, the circular pores in the PDMS deform and eventually snap shut to relieve the stress, much as the joints in railways and bridges expand and contract to maintain structural integrity in response to changes in moisture and temperature. Because the elastic deformatio...